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The Paideia Proposal is a system of liberal education intended for students of all ages, including those who will never attend a university. It was a response to what Adler characterized as the United States' antidemocratic or undemocratic educational system, a holdover from the 19th century, when the understanding of universal suffrage and basic human rights fell short of 20th century ...
Paideia Problems and Possibilities: A Consideration of Questions Raised by The Paideia Proposal (1983) A Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society (1984) ISBN 0-02-500280-5; The Paideia Program: An Educational Syllabus (1984, with Members of the Paideia Group) ISBN 0-02-013040-6
The Greeks considered paideia to be carried out by the aristocratic class, who tended to intellectualize their culture and their ideas. The culture and the youth were formed to the ideal of kalos kagathos ("beautiful and good"). Aristotle gives his paideia proposal in Book VIII of the Politics. In this, he says that, "education ought to be ...
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The word 'paideia' is in Loeb's Politics of Aristotle on page 274. Paideia comes from the word child. No, I am not changing words or definition. The English aliteration of the Greek word is wrong. Encyclopaedia Britannica, which I grew up on, is of a psuedo-Greek aliteration. "paedia" it is not. Mr. Jaeger puts it in the right aliteration of ...
Insofar as humanitas corresponded to philanthrôpía and paideia, it was particularly applicable to guiding the proper exercise of power over others. Hence Cicero's advice to his brother that "if fate had given you authority over Africans or Spaniards or Gauls, wild and barbarous nations, you would still owe it to your humanitas to be concerned ...
The natural aristocracy is a concept developed by Thomas Jefferson in 1813 which describes a political elite that derives its power from talent and virtue (or merit). He distinguishes this from traditional aristocracies, which he refers to as the artificial aristocracy, a ruling elite that derives its power solely from inherited status, or wealth and birth.
Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. was the son of Richard Bissell, the president of Hartford Fire Insurance. [4] [5] Richard Jr. was born in the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, and went to Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts. [6]